Nathan Read

Nathan Read (2 July 1759-20 January 1849) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-MA 10) from 25 November 1800 to 5 March 1803, succeeding Samuel Sewall and preceding Seth Hastings.

Biography
Nathan Read was born in Warren, Massachusetts in 1759, and he became a schoolteacher in Beverly and Salem, as well as a Harvard scholar. He came to own an apothecary store in Salem, and he invented the high-pressure steam engine in 1789. He went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1800 to 1803, and he died in Belfast, Maine in 1849 at the age of 89.